DIA

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The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, will step down this year, after a tenure pushing for broad changes in how military intelligence is collected and used, the Defense Department said.

For the past 18 months, the U.S. has invested heavily in ways to examine and collect public social-media postings as a source of overseas intelligence, according to a top official who says it was used to confirm that rebels shot down a Malaysian passenger jet in Ukraine.

The purchase from private-equity firm GTCR is CACI's largest acquisition. CACI said the acquisition of the national security and defense intelligence services provider will expand its high-growth cyberspace market.

The White House moved Monday to contain a new wave of criticism over Syria and Iraq after President Barack Obama said that U.S. intelligence officials were at fault for underestimating the threat of the militant group Islamic State.

Ukraine intelligence officials said they knew three days before the downing of Flight 17 that rebels in the east of the country possessed sophisticated air-defense systems capable of felling a jetliner at a high altitude.

On Wednesday, North Korea repeated a claim that it is able to make small nuclear weapons, further stoking concerns that it has mastered the technology to put them on long-range ballistic missiles that could potentially threaten the U.S. Should the latest North Korean statement be considered truthful? The answer, like many questions about North Korea, depends on who you ask....